Suicide rate rises in hot weather
Sunny weather: Not good news for all
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The damp summer may have made us all miserable, but research suggests it is hot weather that really tips us over the edge.
A team from London's Institute of Psychiatry found that suicide rates go up during hot weather.
Analysis of more than 50,000 suicides in England and Wales between 1993 and 2003 showed the suicide rate rose when average daily temperatures topped 18C.
The study appears in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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